White supremacy is a bipartisan project, the most consistently bipartisan project in this nation’s history.

Nancy Pelosi is already trying to turn George Floyd’s death into something triumphant, something to keep people at home except when they come out to stand in line and vote for Democrats while hoping for change.

Cops in Ohio just killed a 16-year-old girl who called them for her protection. Ma’Khia Bryant deserved to be able to enjoy this evening. Instead she’s dead.

Fuck every single cop who sees all of this and keeps going in to work.

More than 16,000 people have been killed by cops since 2005 that we know of and most folk won’t have to take off their socks to count how many have been convicted (8).

You can’t reform this.

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This framing of Floyd’s murder turns the death of a real human being into the cinematic trope of the kindly black supporting character sacrificed for the growth and redemption of the narrative’s white protagonists https://t.co/seHY2N5tuw

— Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 20, 2021

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Chauvin is the eighth officer convicted of murder since 2005. Of over 16,000 killings.

Just providing context for the “first steps” that we’re taking.

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Sources:

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database
• https://www.businessinsider.com/thousands-of-police-involved-shooting-deaths-since-2005-less-than-a-dozen-convictions-2015-4